The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-09

Il there some trunk or drawer In your
| house that You go to only on anniversary
days, when there comes heating against
your soul the scrf Of great ocean Of
agony: tits the cave Of Adullam: Is there
some David here whose fatheriv heart
hayward Absalom has broken! l. there
some Abraham here who Is lonely because
Sarah is dead in tho family.plot Of
Machpelah: After thirty or: forty years
OF companionship, how hard it was for
them to part! Why not have two seats in
the Lords chariot; SO that both the old
folks might have gone up at once? My
aged mother in her last moment said to
| my father:
"Father, Wouldn't it be nice II we could
both go together?" No, no. We must
part. Ard there are wounded hearts here
to-day. The world can not comfort you.
What can It bring you? Nothing. Moth.
| ing. The salve they try to put on your
wounds will not stick. They can not with
their bungling surgery. mend the broken
bones.
Zoppar, the Nnamathite, and Bildad,
the Shuttle, and Eliphaz. the Temanite,
| come in and talk and talk and talk. but
miserable comforters are they all. They
can not pour light into the cave of Adul.
lam. They can not bring a single drop Of
water frcm
The well OF Bethlehem, which is by the gate.
But, glory be to Jesus Christ, there is
| comfort at the gate. There is life in the
we'll at the gate. II you give me time I
| will draw up a promise for every msn,
woman and child in this house. Ave, ]
will do it in two minutes. ! wal lay boia
the rope of the old WE'LL
What Ia your trouble? "Oh," YOU saw,
81 am so SICK so weary o, life-aimcnts
after ailments" will drar up promise:
The Inhabitants shall never say 81 am sick. "
What il your trouble? "Ol,, it is loss Of
friends-bereavement, you say. l will
draw You up promise, fresh aud cold, out
Of the we'll:
am the resurrection and the Yfe: he tina,
believeth in me, though he were deal, yet shall
he live.
What is your trouble? You say it il the
inflrmities Of old age. I will draw you ur
a promise:
Down to old age am with thee, to hoary
hairs will carry thee.
What is your trouble: "Oh," you sav,
81 have a widowed soul, and my children
cry for bread. bring up this promise:
Leave thy fatherless children-I will preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust in me.
break through the armed ranks of your
sorrows to-day and bring to your parched
lips
drink of the water Of the we'll Of Bethle
hem. which is BY the gate.
Again, the Gospel we'll Is at tho gat. Of
Heaven. have not heard yet one single
intelligent account Of the future world
from ANYBODY who does not believe in the
Bible. They throw such fog about the
subject that do not want to 20 to the
skeptic's heaven, to the transcendental.
lists heaven, TO the worldly philosophers
heaven. l would not EXCHANGE the poor
est room in your house for the finest
heaven that Huxley, or Stuart Mill, or
Darwin ever dreamed Of. Their heaven
has no Christ in it; and heaven without
Christ, though you could sweep the whole
universe into it, would be a hell! Oh, they
tell US there are no songs there; there are
no coronasions i'm Heaven--that il all
imag nation. They tel Us we will do
there about what we do here, only on q
larger sca!e-geometrized with clearer in.
tallect, and with alpenstock go Chamber.
ing up over the icebergs in an eternal
vacation. Rather than that, turn to my
Bible, and 1 find Johns picture of that
good land-ihat Heaven which was your
lullaby in infancy; that Heaven which
our children in ths Sabbath-school will
sing about this aftnrnoon; that Heaven
which has ''well Mt the gate"
After you have been on a long journey,
and you come in all bedusted and tired to
your home. the first thing you want Is re.
freshing ab'ution; and am glad to know
that after we get through the pilgrim
age Of this world-the hard. dusty
will fad a we'll at
the gate. In that one wash, away
will go our sins and sorrows. 1 do not care
whether cherub, or seraph, or my own de-
parted friends in that blessed lard place
to my lips the cup, the touch Of that cup
will be life, will be Heaven! Twas read.
ing Of how the ancents sought for the
of perpetual youth. They thought
if they could only find and drink out
of that well, the old would become young
again. the sick would be cured aud every
body would have eternal juvenescence.
or course, they could not find it. Eureka!
have found it!
The water OF the we'll Of Bethlehem, which i.
by the gate.
think we had better make n bargain
with those who leave us, going out of this |
world from time to time, as to where |
we will meet them. Travellers part |
ing appoint place of future |
meeting. They say: 1--WE will meet at |
Rome, or we will meet Mt Stockholm, or !,
Vienna, or Jerusalem, or Bethlehem
Now, when we come to stand by the death |
pillow of those who are leaving us for the |
far land, do not let us weep as though We !
would never see them again. but let us,
there standing, appoint place where we |
will meet. Whore shall it be: Shall it he |
on the banks of the river? No. The banks |
are too long. Shall IL be in the temple: |
No, no. There Is such q host therefor |
times ten thousand. Where !
shall we meet our loved ones? Let us
make an appointment to meet at the well |
by the gate. OH Heaven! Sweet Heaven
Dear Heavenl Heaven, where Jesus is!
Heaven! Heaven!
But while 1 stand here there comes n
reyulsion Of feeling when look into your
eyes and know there are souls here dying
Of thirst. Notwithstanding the we'll at the
gate. Between them and the we'll of |
Heaven there is a great army of sin,
and though Christ is ready to clear a way
TO that we'll for them, they will not have
his love or intercession.
But I am glad to know that you may
come yet. The we'll Is here-the we'll OF
Heaven. Come; do not care how feeble
you are. Let me take hold of your arm
and steady you up to the well.curb.
Ho, every one that thirstefh. come.
/ would rather win one soul to Christ
this morning than wear the crown Of the
worlds dominion. Do not let any man
20 away and say l did not invite him.
Oh, if you could only just Look Mt my